Mark Littlewood
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Join us at the
#ThinkTent
at this year's Conservative Party Conference. Full programme included here:
Highlights include
@MarkJLittlewood
interviewing
@RobertJenrick
,
@DavidGHFrost
,
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
and Dr David Starkey.
#CPC24
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Idea for
@MarcusRashford
- could he get the PFA to agree that all Premier League players will pay a 20% "anti-poverty" levy on earnings above £1m pa? This would raise c£360m pa & could then be used for vast range of free school meal schemes etc. It would make a big difference.
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Desperately trying to fight my way home after a great
#Brexit
party in London. Proving v tricky to get through the plague of locusts, the riots and all five horsemen of the apocalypse. Especially given the food and medicine shortages. Fingers crossed, I’ll make it there somehow.
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A letter from Prince Philip to the IEA in 1983, which is proudly framed in our offices. RIP.
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Am already looking forward to a second referendum in Ireland on abortion to make doubly sure that the electorate really did know what the the hell they were voting for. Am hoping Gina Miller will litigate to force a re-run.
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Does anyone seriously still believe that anyone in Britain with a “TV set”should be forced to pay - under threat of criminal sanction - £157 pa to the BBC? This racket is over. Surely?
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52% in the 2016 referendum, 80+% of the vote in 2017 election to leave the SM & CU, Brexit Party tops poll in 2019 Euros, Conservatives win huge majority in
#GE19
- on an electoral system backed by 68% in a referendum. Are we done yet? Do we now have “loser’s consent”? Please?
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Have now met a good few workers whose lives have been screwed up by
#ExtinctionRebellion
today. Empty bars and restaurants. Ordinary people who aren’t getting properly paid due to a bunch of privileged, idle rich middle class people turning Marsham Street into a camp site. Sad.
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Quote of the week is definitely from John Oliver - "Nazis are a lot like cats: If they like you, it's probably because you're feeding them."
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I am urgently seeking government advice on how cautious I need to be when I hug my Mum on 22nd May. I want to hug her but I need Chris Whitty to tell me the exact parameters. 3 seconds? 1 second with a kiss on the cheek? I am writing to the state to get the right guidance.
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I don’t want to hear from anyone who backs this absurd move about “saving the high street” ever again. This is lunacy. I’ll be doing as much shopping as possible through Amazon from now on.
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If I understand this correctly, it would be a debate between 2 politicians who voted Remain. If Nicola S, Vince C and Caroline L are included, it would then be a debate between 5 politicians who voted Remain.
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Rather chillingly, Jeremy Wright explains on
@SkyNews
that the state will have the power to ban internet platforms as “it’s important to encourage good behaviour”. Where does this end?
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Suddenly, my Twitter feed is full of leftwingers who don't like a democratic vote and are worried about the reaction of the "markets". Wow.
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Increasingly, the UK is a socialist state. There is no clear end to the deletion of the freedoms of ordinary men & women. And the state apparently has the scientific wisdom to organise all citizens’ affairs - as well as a bottomless pot of money to do so. Unlikely to end well.
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Glad to report that mask wearing is collapsing on London trains. The idea that the state should still sanction this nonsense is absurd. The only folk wearing masks look like millionaires from Putney. I guess they can afford lockdown?
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Bloody Brexiteers. Entrepreneurial multi-millionaires milking the system dry. Relocating their companies to Singapore. Never “giving anything back”. Oh...just a minute....
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Worlds fail me. It’s “news” that people pay above cost of production for a good or service? I’m furious about the Mars bar I ate. It cost me 60p, I bet it only cost them 40p to make it! Exploitation! This is an actual
@BBCNews
headline. Below GCSE standard economics.
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So,
@jeremycorbyn
argues we don’t need competition in postal delivery as we each have just one letter box. Presumably, we don’t need competition in food supply either as we each have just one mouth.
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Julia can be pretty feisty woman. Sometimes even a tad scary. But I’m surprised that British GPs are such a meek & feeble bunch of people that they can’t even contemplate the concept of listening to her. Utterly, utterly pathetic.
@JuliaHB1
My response to the RCGP’s ridiculous decision to ‘no-platform’ me
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This is just brilliant. I love my country and the British people are just amazing. If I’d not been born in Britain, I would wish that I had been.
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Freedom & democracy often rely on one person, who is so principled & determined that they will take on ghastly, seemingly insuperable odds against the state machine. And then win.
@darrengrimes_
is that man.
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Not only that, I hope this kite flies. 180,000 criminal prosecutions per annum. 30% of all prosecutions of women (usually poor women) and nearly 100 people per year thrown into prison. Because they don’t want - or can’t afford - to buy a state-backed product. End it. Fast. Now.
I hope the Sunday Times story about the BBC is kite-flying. Destroying the BBC wasn’t in our manifesto and would be cultural vandalism. “Vote Tory and close Radio 2”. Really?
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Blimey.
@carolecadwalla
will be all over this. Confirmation that huge sums of foreign money from the ultra-rich are pouring into the UK in an attempt to subvert our politics.
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Memo to Remain & to anti-Trump people: the aim is to mobilise supporters ON POLLING DAY, not a couple of days afterwards. Hope this helps.
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Quite a set of stats from the BBC on energy prices. The government takes ten times as much in tax as the energy companies do in profit.
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We now need to make sure we build a free trading, internationalist, liberal Britain. Not a small minded, inward looking one. What a chance.
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Probably the most successful & influential UK politician of the last 20 years. Led two parties to topping the poll in nationwide elections. Loathed by the establishment, but decisively shifted the ground they have to live on. Quite a staggering impact, all in all.
This is why I’m standing down as leader of Reform UK.
I will continue to play my part through the media, social media and new projects.
My thanks go out to the many millions that helped change the course of history forever.
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There might be a ton of good reasons for not removing the whip from Tory MPs. But “being Winston Churchill’s grandson” is not one of them.
#BrexitDebate
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This
@BBCNews
article suggests N Korea’s problems are due to bad weather, sanctions, fertiliser shortages & lack of aid. At no point does it consider that N Korea being a wicked, murderous communist dictatorship might pose a problem or two.
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I can't believe the EU asking for a £92bn divorce bill. We could recruit an additional 3.03 billion police officers for that money.
#ge2017
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Presumably, the NHS will be obliged to source their own paper from their own forests, milk their state-owned herd of cows and build their own computers?
Labour promises to remove all traces of privatisation from NHS
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“Stay alert, control the virus, save lives” is an anagram of “Easily survives travel north to castle”. What can I say? It’s been a quiet morning...
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There’s batshit. Then there’s full on utterly delusional, departed planet Earth crazy batshit. This is clearly the latter.
Serious question: how much confidence do we have that our police is immune to pressure from government? Because Met police investigation into Vote Leave should now encompass Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary & half the cabinet. Will it?
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What a woeful and useless police force we have in London. A total embarrassment.
@MPSWestminster
Please remember there are no outdoor screens showing the
#EURO2024
final in central London.
Many of the pubs are already full.
If you were thinking of travelling in perhaps consider other options and remember to plan your journey home.
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English people need to get that Scots Nats are NOT "playing politics". They're doing politics. Independence is a political question.
#bbcqt
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It’s usually an efficient delight to enter the country at
@Gatwick_Airport
- but with Border Force on strike, today was even swifter than usual. Bravo!
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We are all now going to witness - live and now - what closing down capitalism looks like. In real time. It’s not good. Not good at all.
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The government has totally abandoned even a nod to cost-benefit analysis. We are now firmly on the territory of “if it saves just one life”.
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I’m starting to notice that the “we need a British Macron” meme isn’t quite what it used to be...
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Anyone who thinks that a 6.7% GDP forecast over the next 15 years amounts to something truly objective is a campaigner, not an economist. We really need to end a political culture in which decimal points (of wild uncertainty) are presented as science.
The government's own forecasts suggest Boris Johnson's Brexit deal would reduce growth by 6.7% between now and 2034 and leave the average person £2,250 a year poorer - these numbers should be better known than they are.
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No one born in the last 100 years has led Labour to a General Election victory, except Tony Blair
#GE2019
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In the private sector, “no competitive advantage” would be described as a cartel. Which is a fitting description of the EU today.
There is 'desperate' and then there is panic stricken Guy. *grin*
"Their needs to be a level playing field, and no competitive advantage" <-yeah, right. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
*only in your dreams*
@guyverhofstadt
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A very generous late Xmas present. I agree with every word on every single page.
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Who funds you? We can’t have these kids demanding changes in public policy, their case being broadcast all over the media without asking “who gives them their pocket money?”
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Well, that’s one way of describing a boom in the local economy. In other news, cinemas showing blockbuster movies are “hit by overbooking” and this year’s fantastic World Cup was “hit by over-watching”
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@StarryTowers
@leehighlander
@bbcquestiontime
a determined & inspired bunch of 5m+ people. Worth way more than oil. That's what Scotland has
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You can ban fracking. Ban coal. Ban more North Sea oil. And place special taxes on UK energy companies. Ok. We are. Just don’t be surprised when the price of energy goes up.
@MrAWJLawrence2
@MarkJLittlewood
Because sod the environmental impact of fracking 🤪
Tell me, were they ever able to disprove the connection between fracking and the tremors that started happening around the same time they began fracking?
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There will be more data to crunch. But this is more evidence that the NHS is pretty much the worst healthcare system in the Western world. Once we look at all the info, there may be a good case for going for an EU-style more marketised system.
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Thanks for the (mainly supportive!) comments from you guys in Scotland after
#bbcqt
. Good luck & I hope to be back north of the border soon.
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I think it’s fair to say that the campaign to rejoin the EU - which
@Andrew_Adonis
told us was underway on the 1st January - hasn’t had a particularly good first month.
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I get the "come together, stand strong" approach but am not clear what plan anyone has to stop this happening again
#OneLoveManchester
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So, the bill comes for dinner. I said, "I'll deal with it". By which I meant I was going to walk off & leave the other half to pay the lot.
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The Liberal Party (& now
@LibDems
) wait for one hundred years for a popular uprising against the political order. And then find themselves on the same side as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs & the House of Lords. Pathetic.
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Irish border issue is becoming absurd. UK govt should simply say “we are not imposing a hard border on the northern side, we behave you not to do so on the southern side”. Sanctity of the single market is not the UK’s problem. Never should have agreed to “backstop” in this way.
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Stunning & life threatening incompetence of NHS tonight: a pharmacy won’t issue emergency Ventolin; 111 only offers GP call back in 2 hours - who then faxes a prescription to A&E department; A&E won’t issue an inhaler to my gf. So, my last option is to call 999 for an ambulance.
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We need more brilliant, very successful, generous billionaires. Not fewer.
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All in all, the
@iealondon
’s
@KateAndrs
has had a pretty busy & brilliant few days. I think she may have single-handedly shifted the whole debate on the ridiculous
#GenderPay
“issue”. Speaking truth to power in spades. Top, top stuff.
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At the IEA, we built a TV and radio broadcasting studio in our HQ last year. It cost £3,000. I’d have liked to have spent a bit more. But I can’t imagine how I could possibly have spent £2,604,676 more. Seems like more grotesque waste in the public sector.
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Here’s how UK prices have changed in a range of sectors over the last twenty years. You’ll notice that the biggest price hikes are in the areas typified by heavy state intervention. The biggest price falls in less state controlled areas. Full report here:
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Those on today’s
#PeoplesMarchVote
are outnumbered by over 170:1 by those who actually voted to leave and by over 180:1 by those who tuned in to watch England v Tunisia and even by 6:1 by those who voted UKIP at the last General Election. Not a game changer, in short.
#Brexit
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Once again, when will we get the data showing the enormous health benefits accruing to the people of Wales compared to those of us in England? These benefits must be truly amazing to justify these sort of restrictions.
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Well, in fairness, the NHS struggles every year to prepare for the concept of “winter”, so it’s of little surprise that preparing for Brexit might be a bit of a stretch...
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Obviously I’m not a neutral observer, but I thought
@RishiSunak
won
#itvdebate
comfortably. Very comfortably.
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@StarryTowers
good luck! Adrenalin now worn off so am getting some sleep. An independent Scotland could & should be fantastic.
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I guess it might now just be dawning on the political establishment of the Western world that they really aren't very popular.
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Absolutely staggering from an elected politician. Freedom of speech doesn’t extend to allowing people to “generally offend”. Unreal. Surely, not consistent with the values of the Labour Party, is someone lodging a complaint?
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Fun fact: for every 4 Labour MPs who (presumably all) want Boris out of office, there are 3 Tory MPs who agree.
#NoConfidenceVote
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Am enjoying a January holiday in the Florida sunshine, away from the
#Brexit
mania. So far, I’ve been able to buy goods & services pretty seamlessly without being in a customs union, currency union or single market with the USA.
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Well, this is great news. Because you’re the Chancellor. So you can help with costs by cutting people’s taxes. That’s the biggest cost in any household budget. So, that’s a thing you can do. Looking forward to the tax-slashing Spring budget now. Should be great. 🙄
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Hey
@JustinWelby
- can you promise that the CofE will use their Amazon shares to directly transfer money to the poor? If you are using the Devil’s money to do God’s work, I get that. But please confirm dividends will be distributed to the impoverished, not kept in your portfolio?
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Almost exactly like the 2nd World War. English cities being bombed every night. Conscription. Millions of deaths. Concentration camps across Europe. It’s identical, basically.
Ffs. I feel like we are in the middle of the Second World War and one side is busy trying to decide who makes the tea and cakes for Capt Mainwairing at the Home Guard
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There’s an awful lot of very grim, worrying and disturbing stuff in modern day politics. But this video is definitely up there.
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Nothing is really free. Not owls. Not broadband. The broadcast media & the BBC should be obliged to drop the term “free” and instead use the word “unpriced”. That would be more accurate! General election 2019: Labour pledges free broadband for all
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Just to clarify, this Observer piece is extremely inaccurate & misleading as far as the IEA’s approach & thinking is concerned. In fact, it’s pretty close to having stated the complete opposite of the truth. Truly dire “journalism”. Again.
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I wish someone would ask
@jeremycorbyn
which Unionist funerals he has been to in his never-ending quest for peace
#BattleForNumber10
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At last, I seem to have found an increase in state spending which
@BBCNews
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Observed stats from Wembley tonight: fans wearing masks in the stadium 0.5%; fans socially distancing from each other 0.01%; chance of England scoring if they played all night 0.001%.
#euro2020
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A former candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party is now toying with which form of communism he wants to vote for. This speaks more to Tory Party than to him. But both should be utterly ashamed.
The Green Party are uber-liberal socialists. They certainly are nothing like the German Greens. What on earth are you thinking
@RoryStewartUK
?
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Just back from holiday. A government of “national unity” would presumably need to compromise c52% Brexiteers & c48% Remainers. That’s what’s being suggested, right?
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Yet more evidence that this government is eager to impose rules on us, whilst ignoring them themselves. Classic socialism, basically.
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Is there still a plan by MPs to ban
@realDonaldTrump
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I really hope Dom Cummings isn’t somewhere in that crowd. If he is, the Newsnight team have enough material for weeks of analysis and coverage.
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A vital statement. The current government must either (a) heed it and U turn totally or (b) label Donna Jones as a “far right activist”. I almost think they might very well do (b). God help us.
Coming from a public official , this is an extraordinary statement.
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What a great 14 years at
@iealondon
- I can’t wait to see my successor Tom Clougherty in the hot seat. The greatest job in Westminster. And no better person to do it!
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Suddenly, being funded by rich individuals doesn’t have any impact at all on editorial output. Quite the U-turn by
@GeorgeMonbiot
Monbiot defending himself from an ad hominem attack based on the funding of his employer. Live by the sword, die by the sword George!
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Haven’t watched
@SkyNews
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Have to say, fair play,
@BBCSport
nail it here. The “men’s” tournament. When Kane scored, in pubs and clubs down the land, we needed to remind ourselves it was only the “men’s” tournament. It makes the licence fee so important.
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This insanity needs to stop. I want cops to fight crime not coarse humour, blasphemous cartoons or overuse of the F word.
It isn’t an offence of course. Impersonating a police officer is, though. I mean, a real police force wouldn’t do this would they?
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“Envy of the world”. Utter farce that NHS uses fax machines. That’s where state socialist healthcare leads you. So ridiculous it’s tragic.
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This made me pause for reflection. A massive state sector project running enormously over budget. Who'd have thought that was even possible!?
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Relaxing in Glasgow after
#bbcqt
. Now I just need to nail my audition tomorrow to be the 13th Doctor. That may not be so easy.
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Last Nov, many seemed to think it would be great to elect a President just because of her gender. They seem quieter today.
#frenchelection
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